Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-22
LOCAL BREyITIES.

1t is expected that Judge Van Fleet will
render his decision in the Fire Department
| case Tomorrow morning.
A. Dennery is suffering from fractured
rib, occasioned by his falling down the
stairs at his residence few nights since.
A street car team ran into ranch wagon
| at an H-street crossing on Tuesday, and were
badly hurt, if not ruined, but the ranch
outfit received but little damage.
G. S. Mason, State Secretary of the Y. M.
U. a, will commence a weeks series of
evening evangelistic meetings in the Asso-
cation rooms in this city, on October I'd.
Colonel Shafter, U. s. A., who has been
spending few days in the city, fell yester-
day morning while hurrying to catch a
street car, and was quite severely shaken up.
Mrs. j. G. Smith, a resident of Lodi,
while coming in from the Park in a street
car last evening, had her pocket picked of
her purse, containing thirty or forty dol
lars.
Leo, who some weeks ago stabbed man
named Kelly near Davisville. was tried at
Woodland on Tuesday, the jury returning
verdict of assault with intent to commit
bodily harm.
The steamer Governor Dana arrived from
the upper Sacramento yesterday morning
with barge load of grain; and the San
joaquin, No 4, from San Francisco with
merchandise.
There was such heavy fog on the Bay yes
terday morning that the ferry steamers were
delayed, and the local passenger train from
San Francisco, due here at 1125 A. NJ, did
not arrive until so minutes later.
The Chinese of the Masonic Lodge" are
conducting grand devil driving ceremonies
at their temple" Fifth and / streets
Visitors TO the city, and especially people
from the East will find the ceremonies
worth attending.
The police were out at 6 A. M yesterday,
seeing to it that no "early bird" of the
" shell game persuasion should catch any
suckers. 1t did not appear to be very diff
cult to stop the games when they were pro-
ceeded against in earnest.
Officers Sullivan and McNiff arrested
young man named Robert Ray yesterday
afternoon on a charge of robbery, preferred
by James Mccarthy. The parties had been
friends, but Ray is accused of relieving Nc
CaIthy of a considerable sum.
A great quantity of baled hay is being
hauled TO Sacramento from Davisville and
vicinity, and scores of wagons loaded with
it arrive here daily, the hauling being
fastened in order that it may be completed
before the rainy season commences.
The residence of Matt Toomey was en-
tered by two thieves Tuesday afternoon,
and the rascals were engaged in ransacking
the house when Mrs. Toomey returned |
home and surprised them. They made |
their escape by jumping through window. |
The Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin |
county have awarded the contract for the |
of bridge over the Mokel- |
unme river near New Hope to the King
Bridge Iron and Manufacturing Company. |
The contract price is about $l,980. Sacra- |
mento county pays portion of the cost of |
construction.
Fish Commissioner Reuter- left for San |
francisco yesterday. intending to visit Pa |
per Mill creek and other streams where |
dams have been constructed without fish |
ladders to enable fish to ascend ana will |
endeavor to convince the dam owners that |
1t is to their interest to comply with the |
law in the premises.
The soap trick mantle sharper who gulls |
the verdant by offering for sale little pack |
ages OF soap, into which he ostensibly puts |
a 50 greenback, the purchaser finding to his |
disappointment that it was only pretense |
has commenced business on the streets. |
his scheme is little if any better than the |
shell game for the public.
A little child of J. S. Hanson, of Davis |
vile, came near losing its life the other |
day. Getting hold of bottle of liniment, |
carelessly left within reach, it contrived to |
loosen the cork, and, child-like, filled its |
mouth with the caustic liquid. Fortu- |
nateIy no portion was swallowed, though |
the chllds mouth and face are terribly |
blistered and sore.
The Yolo Mail says AT the present time |
there is scarcely any water in the tule lands |
between this city and Sacramento. There |
are number of canals and sloughs that |
contain water the whole year through, but |
outside of these the plains are dry and |
dusty. Bo.h roads between here |
and the Capital are in the very best condi- |
ton, and for the benefit of the few Wood |
land people irving to beat the games at /
Sacramento we will state that the walking |
is fine and healthful
The average Signal Service temperature |
yesterday vas go, being 10 cooler than the |
normal for that day. The highest and |
lowest temperature was $50 and $40, with |
fresh, variable winds and clear to fair wea-
Their prevailing. Showers of rain are pre- |
dicted by Lieutenant Maxfield, of San |
Francisco, who is the Chief of the Pacific |
Coast Signal Service The RAIN IS expected |
in the southern part of the State, and fair |
weather in the central and northern por-
ton.
Woodson & Alexander have compiled |
and published neat little pamphlet en- |
titled the Strangers Guide to Sacra-
1t is full of information concern. |
ing business houses, and gives in a con- |
densed form facts of general interest. There |
is given map of the country for fifty miles |
around Sacramento, a cut showing the |
present appearance of Suffers Fort, and |
facts containing the advantages, places of |
drives, public buildings, etc.,
of Sacramento.
To avoid the Sacramento police tramps
go over to Washington to pass the night, |
and occupy every barn and shed they can
crawl into, while in the early morning
many of them can be seen asleep on the |
sidewalks or in doorways. The complaint
made at Woodland of the expense incurred
in arresting these fellows for vagrancy, and
sending them to the County Jail has
caused the Washington constables to cease
arresting them unless they were caught
larceny or disturbance, and
the tramps, understanding the situation,
are making themselves very much at home.
ADJUSTMENTS.
METROPOLITAN THEATER.-The spectacu-
lar and Irish pomadu drama Pnca ~